February 2026

North Dakota's oil month in February 2026, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 2026. It is assembled now from today's public records, with what was known later, so that every month since January 2003 has an issue.

The month in numbers

Oil output1,123,964barrels a day0.3% below the month before · 3.5% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,772plus 182 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded34oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed22137 spacing and 0 pooling actions

Crude price$58.52a barrel, first purchase$65.04 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas3.9%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks February 2026.

Drilling

34 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2026 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 15, Williams 10, Divide 6, Burke 2, McKenzie 1.

Hearings and orders

22 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2026 are in the project's order index, with 137 spacing and 0 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (9), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP (4), EOG Resources, Inc. (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

106 operators filed rows in the February 2026 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,750), Devon Energy Williston, L.L.C. (2,089), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,984), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,981), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,788).

The operator of record changed on 31 wells since their previous report.

Samson Oil and Gas USA, Inc to Springline Operating LLC: 24 wells

A change of operator of record is what the reports show; it does not say why. Sales, mergers, renamed legal entities and new contract operators all look the same. Names are as the reports spell them.

Sources

Oil output and price: U.S. Energy Information Administration, monthly state series (public domain), as published today.
Wells reporting, withheld wells, operators and flared gas: the free NDIC Monthly Production Reports for February 2026, as first reported (workbook).
Spud dates: the DMR GIS wells layer of November 6, 2026.
Orders: the project's index of signed NDIC orders (facts only; see the well index).

Not an official record of the State of North Dakota. Not engineering, investment or legal advice. Every figure is in the archive data file.